POWER IN YOUR HAND

I will even dare to claim that most health disorders, whether on the physical or the mental-emotional level, develop from a lack of inner and outer repose and/or too much stress or worry. Since I personally am all too well acquainted with both outer and inner unrest (and have developed some strategies against it with the help of the mudras) I can consider I am healthy and happy today, in both the physical and the mental and emotional sense. I especially enjoy using the mudras since the effort involved is very minimal. We can practise mudras anywhere, anytime, no matter where we are.

Despite the stress that often rules our lives, we are forced to experience periods of rest from time to time. These rest times are also waiting periods. What happens to your mood when you are sitting in traffic, standing in line at the counter, missing the train, twiddling your thumbs at the computer, laying in bed with the flu or a broken bone, or after preparing a meal and your loved ones aren't home? These can all be times of aggravation, inner conflict, or frustration. (I used to hate waiting for anything.) Or they can become times of regeneration and self-communion.

Today, I find that waiting times forced upon me in a quite incidental way, either by the outside world or from inside myself, have become very precious. They are times of pausing. I can use them to gain fresh insight, create new perspectives, or formulate new principles. In yoga, the inner occurrences and their effects are compared with a lake. In everyday life, thoughts and feelings are always in motion, and these movements can be compared with the waves of a lake. The air (mind) moves the water (soul).